Tailor&#39;s measure.



No. 860,773. PATENTED JULY 24s, 1907. R. THOMPSON. TAILORS MEASURE.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 23, 1907.

Application filed November 10, 1906. Serial No. 342,771.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, REINARD THOMPSON, a citizen of the United States, residing in Somerville, in the county of Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Tailors Measures, of which the following is a specification.

This is an improved measuring appliance for tailors7 use, and it is particularly adapted for obtaining body measurements, that is, measurements for use in making body-garments, such as coats and waistcoats in distinction from garments for covering the legs, such as trousers; and the invention has for its principal object to produce a measuring instrument by means of which the measurements of the tailor may be more exact and accurate, in which the device may be operated by a person who is practically unskilled, and in which the vertical bar or standard may be applied with absolute confidence that it is in an exactly vertical position and that the extending arm supported thereby is in an exactly horizontal position.

The nature of the invention is fully described in detail below, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in whichz Figure 1 is a view in elevation of my improved measure with the tapes applied thereto, dotted lines showing patterns produced by the aid of the measure and the different locations of the tape during the process of measuring, and a portion of one ofthe bars being broken out. Fig. 2 shows the device with the lower or hanging bar raised into ahorizontal position, a portion being broken out. Fig. 3 is a view showing the parts folded and in position to be shipped or placed in a drawer. Fig. 4 is an enlarged detail in vertical section.

Similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

a represents the standard made preferably of flat metal and provided at its upper end with a level b, such as a spirit-level. The edge a/ of this standard is preferably, but not necessarily, of the slightly concave shape shown in Figs. 1 and 2. The lower end of the standard is broadened and has rigidly secured to its front surface a plate c provided with a right angled inner corner c whereby the inner edges of the plate are respectively horizontal and vertical for the purpose below described. A covering plate d is rigidly secured to the front surface of the-plate c, thus leaving a space between the lower portion of the standard a and the plate c above and at the left of said plate. A bar e is pivoted at f to the standard between it and the plate d in such a position that the bar will rest on the upper edge of the plate c at right angles with the standard. This bar is longitudinally slotted at g and is provided with a suitable scale, preferably next its upper edge. A bar h is pivotally secured at t' tothe lower portion of the plate a between it and the plate d at such a point that when the bar is swung downward and toward the right against the adjacent edge of the plate c it will be vertical and in line with the standard a. This bar is slotted at c and is provided with a suitable scale next one of its edges. Atl the left edge of the standard is slitted horizontally, and the portion next the upper edge of the slit is bent forward into a lip or stop m which is so located that the bar h cannot swing up beyond a horizontal position or a position in line with the bar e.

n is a bar longitudinally slotted at 10 and held slidingly and removably at right angles with the bar e by means of a clamp which comprises two members r and an adjusting screw t. These members are exactly alike and each is provided at opposite ends with lips s. The outer member lies on the front surface of the bar e with its lips or prongs s extending into the slot g on the opposite sides of the bar n, and the inner member lies against the rear surface of the bar n with its lips or prongs s extending into the slot p above and below the bar e. These two members are held against the front surface of the bar e and the rear surface of the bar 'n respectively by the screw t, and at the same time the lips or prongs s are held in their slots g and p as above described. Thus this bar n is held by friction in a vertical position at right angles with the bar e, and can be moved from one point to another on said bare', or by turning up the screw can be held rigid thereon. A measuring tape a is secured by means of a screw or button o to the front plate d at a point which is substantially on a level with the upper edge of the bar e, and with the upper edge of the bar h when it is lowered. A tape w has one end slidingly secured to the slotted bar h by a button y which slides in said slot.

ln practice, in taking a measurement7 the standard is placed infront of the shoulder with the concave edge a next the shoulder, and raised until the bar e reaches a snug position under the shoulder between the arm and the body. The standard is then brought to an eX- actly vertical position by bringing the level b to a horizontal position, and the bar h is placed in the position indicated in Fig. 1 in which it rests against the rear or inner edge of the plate c and is in a vertical line. The bar n is moved along the bar g toward the back of the shoulder, remaining during such movement at right angles with the bar e. Suitable measurements may then be taken by means of the tape u from the pivot r along the line 10, along the line 1l, and swung therefrom to and along the line 12, and along the lines 13, 14 and 15 in order. The bar g, which is flexible, may then be bent around the back to the rear seam with or without the tape u. The tape a may then be stretched horizontally toward the left along the lines 16 to the front center, or the flexible bar h may be swung up into the position indicated in Fig. 2 and bent around the body to the same point. While the bar h is in this vertical position, as illustrated in Fig. 1, the tape w may be stretched from the proper point therein around the body to the front line 17, and then to the rear line 18. It will be seen from the above that al1 these measurements may be made by means o my contrivance, and may be made to produce patterns of all sizes, by any person under suitable direction, however unskilled the person may be. Hence a high degree of accuracy is attainable and a great detail of measurement is possible even by an unskilled person.

The device is folded into the position indicated in Fig. 3 by loosening the screw t, and detaching the bar u, and then folding the bars e and h parallel with the standard a, springing the bar h by the lip or stop m.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a tailors measure, a standard provided with a level, a bar occupying a position at right angles to the standard and pivoted thereto in order that it may be folded when not in use, a hanging bar pivotally connected with the standard, and means for retaining said bars in horizontal and vertical positions respectively.

2. In a tailor-s measure, a standard, a longitudinally slotted horizontal bar extending from said standard at right angles therewith and provided with a suitable scale, a vertical bar slidingly connected with said horizontal bar at right angles therewith, a vertically hanging bar pivotally connected with the standard and provided with a suitable scale, tapes extending respectively from the standard and vertically hanging bar, and means for limiting the upward movement of the hanging bar` to a position at right angles with the standard and its downward movement to a position in line with the standard.

In testimony whereof I hereunto sign my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

REINARD THOMPSON.

Witnesses HENRY W. WILLIAMS, A. K. Hoon. 

